A 🧵- So yesterday on my flight there was a medical emergency involving a passenger in the seat right in front of me. I immediately jump up (I’m a family medicine PA) as did the woman behind me (internal medicine physician) and sprang into action. 1/6
We are assessing, communicating with each other, the patient’s partner, and the flight crew when all of a sudden a man rushes up from the back, pushes me out the way (a literal shove), and interrupts the woman physician mid-sentence and announces he is a surgeon 2/6